Saturday, 15 November 2008
Thursday, 6 November 2008
My Little Pony
by Joseph O'Brien
photography by Christopher Fraser
Once upon a time, Joseph O'Brien bought a My Little Pony, and a lighter, and combined the two. Then Christopher came and took some photos, and they had a whale of a time waiting for their wonderful pictures to upload to a notoriously slow site because they had (at the time) close to no lives whatsoever.
To download wallpaper versions of images, right click the links underneath each one and select Save Target As....
photography by Christopher Fraser
Once upon a time, Joseph O'Brien bought a My Little Pony, and a lighter, and combined the two. Then Christopher came and took some photos, and they had a whale of a time waiting for their wonderful pictures to upload to a notoriously slow site because they had (at the time) close to no lives whatsoever.
To download wallpaper versions of images, right click the links underneath each one and select Save Target As....
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The Art Archives
A Picture of Joe in Austria
by Christopher Fraser
A harkening back to the time when we were innocent, sweet and friendless.
by Christopher Fraser
Something which is almost a tenth as good as it sounds.
by Christopher Fraser
The remnants of a movement.
by Christopher Fraser (with Joseph O'Brien and Matthew Aplin)
The remnants of a celebrated cartoon.
by Joseph O'Brien (with Christopher Fraser)
Some "modern art".
by Christopher Fraser
A fantastically bad cartoon, the last of Chris's animation career.
Art
How To Be A Homosexual
by Christopher Fraser and Joseph O'Brien
This project, featuring the adventures of a series of apparently random personified objects encompasses all areas of literature, art and even audio, but its most famous incarnation was the animation series XavierFace, which can be found here.
This project, featuring the adventures of a series of apparently random personified objects encompasses all areas of literature, art and even audio, but its most famous incarnation was the animation series XavierFace, which can be found here.
by Joseph O'Brien
Now aging somewhat, the original sketches by Joseph O'Brien, hailing right from the start of HiatusMedia can now be found here in a much better layout.
Now aging somewhat, the original sketches by Joseph O'Brien, hailing right from the start of HiatusMedia can now be found here in a much better layout.
by Christopher Fraser (with Joseph O'Brien)
Inspired by a drama lesson in which a Goblin killed himself after drink-driving, this first (and perhaps last) serious endeavour into Flash animation by Christopher Fraser is the closest to a masterpiece we will ever get in such a realm.
Inspired by a drama lesson in which a Goblin killed himself after drink-driving, this first (and perhaps last) serious endeavour into Flash animation by Christopher Fraser is the closest to a masterpiece we will ever get in such a realm.
by Christopher Fraser
The adventure of a sperm cell, angry at being rejected by the womb and setting out to destroy the world, set to the music of Interpol.
The adventure of a sperm cell, angry at being rejected by the womb and setting out to destroy the world, set to the music of Interpol.
All the rubbish pieces of art that were never really good enough to proclaim as art themselves. Including: The NSPCD, Consumerism, My Little Pony and others.
The NSPCD
The NSPCD was a joint venture between Christopher Fraser and ex-member and wanker Simon Bamforth, as a result of a Year 10 science lesson in which a wind-up duck toy was shamelessly exploited to explain kinetic energy to a bunch of people who had little interest in Physics, and more interest in duck abuse. At one point, there was a rather large campaign, with posters all over school, but now it has been reduced back down to its origins - all that survive are a poster and wallpaper image, both of which can be found below.
POSTER (click to enlarge)

WALLPAPER (click to enlarge)
POSTER (click to enlarge)

WALLPAPER (click to enlarge)
A Picture of Joe in Austria
Maplin: The Movie
Maplin: The Movie
Animated by Christopher Fraser
Featuring the voices of Joseph O'Brien and Matthew Aplin
Music by celador and Eels
Maplin: The Movie was, essentially, Christopher's first big hit. It was split into two parts - the first being a fairly retarded spoof of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire called "Who Wants To Be A Complete Loser", with Matthew in the hotseat, and the other part featuring Matthew driving off a cliff. It wasn't particularly good (despite protests), funny (again, despite protests) or memorable (despite "OR FOUR: A SMALL HIPPOPOTAMUS CALLED BERTIE" becoming a short-lived and rather unlikely catchphrase of the time).
A poster was also produced in the spirit of the moment, and can be downloaded in the following formats (right-click on the links under the image and select Save Target As..., or left-click them and save the image in the new window):
Blowing Up Jesus
Blowing Up Jesus
by Christopher Fraser
Despite its controversial name, Blowing Up Jesus was just the image-by-image product of an afternoon on Lego Creator with Matthew Aplin, meticulously constructing the word "JESUS", then attaching Lego dynamite and blowing it up. There would be video, but at the time I didn't have any decent screen capture software, so a step-by-step image series will have to do.
Consumerism
Consumerism
by Christopher Fraser
end music by Sigur Ros
Consumerism was initially intended as a good piece of work, until it bombed in the animation ratings (yes, they exist) and it was thrown out, perhaps for seeming to be a little too desperate to mimic David Firth, and the fact that it wasn't really very good at all. Desperate to salvage some credibility, the name "Consumerism" was attached at the last minute, to see if the American public would get that it was really about being too greedy around Christmas (which was when it was first published).
It didn't work. Incidentally, neither does the replay button at the end.

